Online services outage

We’re performing maintenance on our Claims Management System. As a result, some of our online services will not be available on Saturday, March 23, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience.

In 2017, people in B.C. missed 2.75 million days of work due to work-related incidents and disease and we accepted 158 work-related death claims. The most common types of injury claims accepted by us were:

There were 152,912 work-related injuries reported to us in 2017. We disallowed 8.4% of the claims.

We accepted 48,771 new short-term disability claims, issuing the initial payment an average of 19.2 days after the date the worker was entitled to wage-loss benefits. The industry subsectors with the most claims with loss of work time included: